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As FIFA now gives out peace prizes, when can we see the AFL literature prize?

Things to do this weekend besides shopping:

- manage your mind goblins
- nap for 1,000 years
- investigate Pi until you get to the weird stuff
- investigate pie
- read a book out loud in the forest. it may seem like no creatures are listening, but they are, and they appreciate it

Simon dē Gulielmō 🐧1d ago

They should have this at the Carols by Candlelight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DIh1Ze8o2Q&list=RDqJkiYNeDsw4&index=2

The Altai band - The Mongolian Santa and Jingle Bell

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Simon dē Gulielmō 🐧1d ago

I don't like the idea of not knowing what to bring and I'm not a great cook. Plus, I'm in a misanthropic mood. I'd prefer a small gathering with people I already know (generally speaking). In summary, "bah, humbug!" - to large parties of strangers.

Simon dē Gulielmō 🐧1d ago

Invited to a Christmas potluck, but planning on not going. I went to a potluck with the same people on Sunday when I was still tired from the travelling and felt like I was like a piece of furniture (I was surprised one of them didn't try sitting on me).

Simon dē Gulielmō 🐧1d ago

JA Westenberg 2d ago

Charles Dickens in 1843: "what if I wrote a story where a man learns not to be a dick"
Humanity: "holy shit"
Humanity: makes 400 adaptations
Humanity: continues being dicks
Humanity: "we should adapt this again"

Simon dē Gulielmō 🐧1d ago

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖1d ago

The Christmas Private Eye cover is chef’s kiss…

Simon dē Gulielmō 🐧2d ago

It was nice and sunny when I was working this morning, but now that the classes are finished, a fog is creeping in ...

Simon dē Gulielmō 🐧2d ago

Brian Bilston 2d ago

This is called ‘Twenty Modern-Day Proverbs’.

Simon dē Gulielmō 🐧2d ago

Yoïn van Spijk 2d ago

The word ‘whore’ is etymologically related to ‘charity’, ‘to caress’, and ‘to cherish’, as well as Romance words such as French ‘cher’ and Spanish ‘caro’, which mean “dear”.

They all stem from a Proto-Indo-European word meaning “desired; loved”.

In the distant Germanic past of English, the meaning of the ancestor of ‘whore’ took some interesting turns.

Zoom in on my new graphic to discover the story of this word family.

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